Re: dbus-native --with-x

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

On 6/1/11 11:16 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:11 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
>> Furthermore, rpm-native seems to get built even if you don't select rpm as package format!
> 
> Yeah, it's called in by package.bbclass:
> 
> # rpm is used for the per-file dependency identification
> PACKAGE_DEPENDS += "rpm-native"
> 
> As far as I can tell, the only part that actually gets used is rpmdeps
> and it does seem like there ought to be a more lightweight way of
> obtaining that one binary than building a full rpm and all its
> dependencies.

As you mentioned rpm-native is being used for two reasons.  1 if rpm target
package are selected, it's being used to build, manage and install (rootfs) the
packages.

The other place, where it's always used, is the rpmdeps calculations.

> "rpm-native" -> "bzip2-native"

Above is used as RPM needs bzip2 to compress components that end up in packages.

> "rpm-native" -> "db-native"

Back-end DB is well, Berkley DB.

> "rpm-native" -> "perl-native"

Perl could be disabled if we don't need the perl interfaces to RPM.

> "rpm-native" -> "openssl-native"

OpenSSL is used for signing if I remember correctly.

> "rpm-native" -> "expat-native"

expat is needed for some XML parsing.  (Currently only internally to RPM, but
eventually it's thought this will be used for other purposes.)

> "rpm-native" -> "autoconf-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "automake-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "libtool-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "gnu-config-native"
> "rpm-native" -> "gettext-native"

Above are needed because of configure...

> "rpm-native" -> "python-native"

If we disable python interfaces to RPM, then this can be disabled.

> "rpm-native" -> "acl-native"

ACL's are needed for some filesystem access on rootfs generation.

> "rpm-native" -> "elfutils-native"

elfutils is used for rpmdeps, among other things.

> "rpm-native" -> "libpcre-native"

this is needed for package installation and creation... it's the pattern
recognition.

> "rpm-native" -> "zlib-native"

zlib is needed, similarly to bzip2, in order to compress/extract specific items
that may end up in a package.

> "rpm-native" -> "popt-native"

popt is the command line argument processing used globally within RPM and it's
sub commands.

> "rpm-native" -> "attr-native"

attr is needed similar to the acl stuff, when constructing rootfs components.

--

So in the above, perl and python are really the only items that could be disabled.

--Mark

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